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“Seeing (ex-cabinet minister) Tessa Jowell recently has put brain cancer back in the news but it also highlights the standard of care has not made any significant ground since the mid 90’s.”

The issue of using cannabis for medicinal purposes is currently in the news with the fight of the parents of Alfie Dingley, six, from Warwickshire, who suffers violent seizures because of epilepsy.

They say it is the only thing that reduces the seizures, which leave him requiring hospital treatment.

However, the Home Office denied the family a licence to use it legally in the UK.

The youngster was taken to the Netherlands to receive cannabis treatment in November last year.

Mr James says well-meaning supporters will give the substance away for those who need it for medicinal purposes and he takes a small amount each night before bed using a vapouriser.

There have been concerns cannabis use in younger people could lead to schizophrenia, yet he argues the strain he uses is low in THC, the psychoactive element of the drug that gets a user ‘stoned’ and concerns opponents of the drug.

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He added: “I am able to work as a freelance 3D artist for science education and I pay my taxes.

“I’ve even been able to get my driving licence back.”

He's been using cannabis in a vaporiser in a bid to stop his brain tumour growing (Image: Ian Cooper)

He aims to travel to London tomorrow with activists from the United Health Alliance, supporting the call for a law change. He has also received support from Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones.

Mr Jones said: “There is significant research that signposts that its use is of considerable benefit to sufferers from MS and other forms of illness and that at least 30,000 people use it daily in the UK.

“I have supported Paul Flynn’s Private Members’ Bill from the outset and I sincerely hope this latest effort to have it enacted in law succeeds.”